Cutting out meat in my diet??

i started incorporating more meat into my diet and I have actually lost more weight that way... it keeps me satiated for way longer. I really just think balance is key- make sure you are eating veggies and getting a good source of protein during your meals.

Becoming a vegetarian just to drop weight makes no sense...I know a lot of fat vegetarians lol.

I've done the same. I became a vegetarian when I was 18 and started eating loads of cheese and carbs (which is how I gained loads of weight). I've started eating seafood and lean meat and cutting way back on carbs which has helped me to lose weight.

I'm not a big meat eater, and in fact have been vegetarian for long periods of my life. However, I find it's a lot of work for me to get enough of the right kind of protein on a vegetarian diet. I just don't want to do that extra work right now -- on top of logging food, working out, etc. It's easier for me to get protein from modest amounts of fish, lean chicken, and lean beef.

i would be very careful cutting meat out of your diet because you can give yourself mono if you dont intake enough protein.

And for the record, I don't actually hate cats. I don't actually believe a cat dies every time you eat meat. It was in jest. Sheesh.

Is it a good idea or no? ive heard alot of people that are nessacarily (sp??) vegetarians, but when they were trying to lose
weight they said cutting out meat was how they were able to lose the pounds. i usually eat meat with my dinner, even if im just trying to have a salad, i put little chunks of chicken in there. should i just completely stop eating it for awhile? =/

It all comes down to just one thing... CALORIES... a veg diet can't guarantee you weight loss and neither meat.Any food product eaten over a calorie limit would turn into fat if your body is not able to use it fully.So better watch out calories and balance your diet.

You can be a veggi if you have some ethical reasons but not for the reason for 'weight loss'.

I was vegetarian for a few months, and I did lose weight. All I ate was vegetables and fruit! I wouldn't recomend it although it is a personal choice. I was very tired all the time and was missing out on alot of great food. I would cut out red meat I only eat chicken and fish

Vegans/vegetarians may actually have a greater risk of heart disease than omnivores. Here is one article with links out to a couple of studies on the matter.

http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/01/06/vegetarians-and-heart-disease/

In summation, the vegans/vegetarians had thicker arterial walls and elevated lipid indicators that could result in heart disease. Things like increased LDL and decreased HDL (the opposite of what you want) over their omnivore counter-parts.

This is a BLOG by a woman who used to be vegan, most likely wasn't eating a well balanced diet, and then went back to eating meat. T. Colin Campbell has refuted her interpretation of studies, I think you can find it on youtube. Regardless of what you beleive to be healthy, I don't think it's very responsible to use blogs as a resource. There are studies conducted by people like Caldwell Esselstyn to show the opposite to be true. My cholesterol levels are flipping amazing. Studies can be twisted to support any viewpoint - mine or yours. However, I will say this for her post, she recognized the inherent problems in studying so-called vegetarians, that being that most people in the U.S. who identify as vegetarian can actually identify times in the previous week/month, whatever the study asks, when they have eaten meat! Uh, folks, that's not vegetarian, and we're not talking pescetarians, they ate chicken and red meat. Totally invalidates the results. In addition, she also posted this:

Since so many vegetarian-versus-omnivore studies are comparing a complete lifestyle overhaul (health-savvy vegetarianism) with health indifference (standard “eat-whatever’s-there” omnivorism), it’s pretty hard to find a vegetarian study that can actually isolate the effects of meat. When a vegetarian’s main diet change is avoiding animal flesh rather than emphasizing fresh produce and moving away from refined foods, the health outcomes aren’t much different than those of standard omnivores (except for the added burden of higher homocysteine).

So, she wasn't as biased as I have seen her be, but it's still a blog. If you eat crap as a veg*n, you're not going to be healthy, same for an omni.

To the OP: cutting out dairy is more likely to have an effect on your weight loss. But it still depends on the person.

WHY??? Oh my I couldn't live without my lean proteins.

Some people have ethical issues with meat eating.

Vegans/vegetarians may actually have a greater risk of heart disease than omnivores. Here is one article with links out to a couple of studies on the matter.

http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/01/06/vegetarians-and-heart-disease/

In summation, the vegans/vegetarians had thicker arterial walls and elevated lipid indicators that could result in heart disease. Things like increased LDL and decreased HDL (the opposite of what you want) over their omnivore counter-parts.

This is a BLOG by a woman who used to be vegan, most likely wasn't eating a well balanced diet, and then went back to eating meat. T. Colin Campbell has refuted her interpretation of studies, I think you can find it on youtube. Regardless of what you beleive to be healthy, I don't think it's very responsible to use blogs as a resource. There are studies conducted by people like Caldwell Esselstyn to show the opposite to be true. My cholesterol levels are flipping amazing. Studies can be twisted to support any viewpoint - mine or yours. However, I will say this for her post, she recognized the inherent problems in studying so-called vegetarians, that being that most people in the U.S. who identify as vegetarian can actually identify times in the previous week/month, whatever the study asks, when they have eaten meat! Uh, folks, that's not vegetarian, and we're not talking pescetarians, they ate chicken and red meat. Totally invalidates the results. In addition, she also posted this:

Since so many vegetarian-versus-omnivore studies are comparing a complete lifestyle overhaul (health-savvy vegetarianism) with health indifference (standard “eat-whatever’s-there” omnivorism), it’s pretty hard to find a vegetarian study that can actually isolate the effects of meat. When a vegetarian’s main diet change is avoiding animal flesh rather than emphasizing fresh produce and moving away from refined foods, the health outcomes aren’t much different than those of standard omnivores (except for the added burden of higher homocysteine).

So, she wasn't as biased as I have seen her be, but it's still a blog. If you eat crap as a veg*n, you're not going to be healthy, same for an omni.

To the OP: cutting out dairy is more likely to have an effect on your weight loss. But it still depends on the person.

I know it is a blog, thanks for your incredible insight. I was assuming readers were intelligent enough to follow the links to the actual studies. I guess not, though.

I still hold that her blog, and therefore studies she sites, are biased on the side of meat eating. Just as studies I could site could be claimed by some to be biased on the other side. For instance, some might claim the work of Caldwell Esselstyn is biased. And like I said, she actually made a good point about how people in this country who identify as vegetarian are not actually vegetarian, so it makes it difficult to actually compare them to meat eaters, since they're often still eating meat as well.